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Park, Mimi; Kim, Yeon – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Mathematics teaching is challenging particularly for teachers who have just started their careers. Research on this sort of teacher has focused separately on their knowledge, identity, or instructional quality. Yet, teaching mathematics as a profession requires synthetic and comprehensive competency. To fill this gap, this study investigates the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Instructional Effectiveness, Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Charalambous, Charalambos Y. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Attempts to better conceptualize and measure teacher knowledge, and through that examine its association to instructional quality have been intensified over the past decades. Despite the progress made, a review of pertinent literature points to four challenges related to studying this association: "proximity" (i.e., the extent to which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
Cobbinah, Joseph E.; Eshun, Emma Sarah – SAGE Open, 2021
Studies have suggested that the effective use of school self-evaluation is one of the best ways of improving schools. Several countries use school self-evaluation as an accountability measure and quality assurance framework to improve schools' and students' academic performance. This article examines teachers' understanding of school…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Evaluation Methods, Teacher Competencies, Knowledge Level
Pennington, Robert C.; Walker, Virginia L.; Tapp, Melissa C. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2021
In this investigation, we surveyed 51 faculty members who were involved in teacher preparation programs in the area of extensive support needs (ESN) across a range of institutions of higher education. We asked participants to respond to questions related to the quality and quantity of program content focused on communication instruction and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, College Faculty, Educational Quality
Delaney, Katherine K. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
In this article, the author examines the ways in which a classroom quality metric framed the teaching and learning experiences of teachers and children in three Head Start classrooms. Using comic subjectivity theory, the author critically analyzes the ways in which the high-stakes classroom quality measure used in Head Start settings directed her…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Educational Quality, Teacher Competencies
Ibrahim, Yaro; Arshad, Rozita; Salleh, Dani – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to obtain stakeholder perceptions of secondary education quality in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research approach was used by conducting interviews. Data were purposively collected from a sample of 15 education stakeholders in Sokoto State, and analyzed to extract major themes using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Secondary Education, Educational Quality
Ogurlu, Uzeyir; Kahraman, Suleyman – Journal of Educational Issues, 2018
This study examined the irrational beliefs of parents of gifted children. Ninety-nine parents of gifted children in Turkey participated in the study. Parent Irrational Beliefs Scale was used as a data collection tool. Mann-Whitney's U and Kruskal-Wallis Tests were used to compare the scores. Results revealed that parents who had no training about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Academically Gifted
Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk; Hatlevik, Ove Edvard – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
The professional digital competence (PDC) of teachers is of growing importance in classrooms, now that digital resources and digital media are becoming important parts of teachers' everyday practice. This study explores how newly qualified teachers are prepared to use information and communication technology (ICT) in their initial teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
Campbell-Barr, Verity – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The early childhood workforce is routinely demonstrated as being central to the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Frequently, discussions of quality focus on structural features of training, such as level and duration. However, the literature demonstrates that quality extends beyond the structural and that early childhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes
Ilgaz, Gokhan; Vural, Levent; Eskici, Menekse – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study aims to examine to what extent the field of competence regarding curriculum knowledge is concordant with the other sub-competency fields of teaching. These fields are field knowledge, pedagogic competence in field teaching, use of information and communication technologies in teaching, student behaviours and class management,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competencies
König, Johannes; Pflanzl, Barbara – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Researchers have identified general pedagogical knowledge (GPK) as a relevant category of teacher knowledge. However, hardly any study has examined the relationship between GPK of teachers and the instructional quality delivered to their students. This article therefore investigates the relationship between teachers' GPK assessed via a…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Quality
Wilkinson, Moira N.; Thomas, Matthew A. M.; Heyman, Cory; Bartlett, Lesley; Godbole, Pragati; Hodge, Stephanie; Naidu, Sailesh; Switzer, Tawnya; Vavrus, Frances – Open Society Foundations, 2015
The World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien in 1990 marked the first concerted effort to prioritize educational development around the world, and subsequent meetings continue to advance the global agenda for what education--and the world--could become. In 2000, the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals laid out the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Sustainability
Barrett, Angeline M.; Sørensen, Tore Bernt – Open Society Foundations, 2015
This paper sets out to reclaim rights-based thinking on for the current proposals for the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The proposed indicators are intended to contribute to a broad and bold agenda for education quality compatible with the targets set out in two proposals for a post-2015 education goals -- the Muscat Agreement…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Komba, Sotco Claudius; Mwandanji, Marcus – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
This study investigated issues surrounding the implementation of competence based curriculum in Tanzanian secondary schools. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the teachers' understanding of the objectives of competence based curriculum; to investigate the teachers' abilities in preparing competence based lesson plans; to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Implementation
Stedman, Nicole L. P.; Roberts, T. Grady; Harder, Amy; Myers, Brian E.; Thoron, Andrew C. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
There has been a call for faculty at academic institutions to improve the quality of their educational programs. Previous research findings have found that the size and focus of the institution impacts the quality and resources given to instructional activities. However, it has been noted that traditionally research-focused institutions now are…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Distance Education, Self Concept, Knowledge Level
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